Woman vomits after sticking her fork into dead lizard in a store-bought lettuce.
Speaking about her nightmare, Michelle Carr said she realised her food contained a poisonous reptile after she had a couple of bites. The new mother said that she found something on her fork and assumed it was...

Police Fatally Shoot Allegedly Armed Motorist Who Crashed Into Multiple Cars in South Los Angeles.
A male motorist who struck multiple vehicles before crashing into a light pole was fatally shot by police in the Florence neighborhood of South Los Angeles Monday night, LAPD said.
The incident began shortly after 6...

US police arrested a man they say robbed a Starbucks coffee shop at gunpoint to settle a heroin debt.
When you owe your heroin dealer money you gotta pay up by any means possible, according to a man arrested in Albuquerque. 24-year-old Mathew Baldonado told officers he robbed a Starbucks...

U.S. citizens among 10 dead in southwest Mexico car crash.
Three vehicles crashed into each other and burst into flames on a highway in south Mexico's Guerrero state, killing 10 people, including five members of a vacationing family visiting from the U.S., officials reported on Saturday.
The accident, involving two SUVs...

Woman shot in the head in Christmas Day shooting in South Richmond.
Anthony Milan Ross, 45, the woman's estranged spouse and the father of the children, was taken into custody shortly after 10 p.m. Monday after exchanging fire with officers after a six-hour standoff, Phoenix police said Tuesday. Ross did...

Facebook BANS Bitcoin ads just days after Mark Zuckerberg praises virtual currency.
Facebook is banning all advertisements for cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin and initial coin offerings, as part of an “intentionally broad” policy against deceptive marketers. Product management director Rob Leathern explained the decision in a blog post, saying Facebook will...

With just three students, small-town high school closing down.
She misses her friends and her classes. She also worries about where she will attend school next year, now that her remote valley town has voted to close the combined middle and high school. And she worries about how she will...

At least eight migrants have died and 86 have been rescued from a smugglers' boat after it starting sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the Italian coast guard said. A search is ongoing to find any possible survivors.
Italy's coastguard said an aircraft on patrol for a European anti-smuggling...

Phoenix police and fire officials found a dead newborn baby girl at or near full term in an Amazon (AMZN, +0.12%) distribution center at 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 16. Responders were called to the scene with a report of “a deceased infant in the women’s restroom located inside the...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations announced on Friday the appointment of Henrietta Fore, an economic development advocate and former U.S. State Department official, as executive director of its Children’s Fund, effective Jan. 1. Fore, 69, who currently is the chief executive officer of manufacturing and...